Blue Butler Studios
$15-30 
8pm

Anais Maviel
elijah jamal asani

Anaïs Maviel is an artist, vocalist, composer & multi-instrumentalist dedicated to translating spiritual concepts to sensory experiences, using sound as medicine & alchemy. With traditional and experimental approaches, her works investigate the power of sound to shape reality, and emphasize the relevance of cultural hybridity. She navigates song, choral, instrumental, orchestral music and staging with a strong connection to cosmologies of sound and speech rooted in oral traditions such as mantra and ring shout. She strives to bridge the gaps between genres & to create a diverse, inclusive, yet sacred musical experience. Among her music collaborators, Alarm Will Sound, Craig Taborn, The Rhythm Method, Meshell Ndegeocello, Meredith Monk, Aruán Ortiz & William Parker. Collaborations with dance include Contra-Tiempo, Urban Bush Women, Merce Cunningham Trust, Okwui Okpokwasili & the Commons Choir. Visual arts collaborators include Sean Webley, Nene Humphrey & Steffani Jemison. Anaïs facilitates vocal liberation with a focus on the body, its environmental, archetypal and cosmic resonances. Both solo albums received international acclaim, and among the generous press shout outs, Jazz Right Now has called her a “unique aesthetic visionary”. She is an awardee of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum Create, 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, 2022 NYFA Artists Fellowship, 2023 New Music USA’s Next Jazz Legacy, and a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in Music Composition nominee. Lastly, she holds a masters degree from Paris Diderot University in modern literature, aesthetics and contemporary thought, which led her to write about the stakes of music & utopia in the creolized world. One can read her essays & poetry in the form of intimate newsletters.

elijah jamal asani is an anti-discilplinary nigerian-american artist bred in chicago & based near
the river wimahl. as an abstract romanticist,, he navigates soft nuances && new hues of sacred
resonation